Re: collecting unique client (computer) specific info?

2003-09-03 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.09.03 10:42 -0700 ) Stas Bekman: You mean, you want to generate one? in mod_perl2/apr it'd be: is there an equivalent in mod_perl1? -- \js -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-22 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.07.21 17:04 -0500 ) Nigel Hamilton: At Turbo10 we went for a strict 'no functional elements' in the template approach. this seems like you're placing a technical limit on your solution. why wouldn't you use the technologies that will solve your problem the best instead of constraining

Re: [RFC] web-messaging application for mod_perl

2003-07-15 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.07.14 20:14 -0700 ) Adi Fairbank: ( I wouldn't want to have any piece of software named after me... just my personal style. Software lives for too long, especially open source. It would still be called that long after I'm dead. ) don't be too sure. no one may call it anything at all

Re: how to secure perl modules?

2003-05-30 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.05.29 14:25 -0700 ) Kirk Rogers: but i dont want to send it out without at least making it somewhat difficult for some hacker to just simply steal it and load it somewhere else without my consent. why not? have you ever read the GNU manifesto? http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

Re: Obfusacating the source

2002-11-19 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.11.19 19:48 +0100 ) Francesc Guasch: The idea is get something just a little difficult to read, so the customer engineers have a hard time if they try to read the source. Call all variables 1 char names Replace all comments with 'comment here' -- .--- ...

Re: [OT] Wanted: beginning perl books for poor kids

2002-11-01 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.10.31 21:57 -0800 ) Nick Tonkin: I'm excited to get them going in perl, and I want to appeal to the list for donations of books on learning perl. I'd say the best 'books' are all on line. Don't underestimate the [lowly] man pages. Or perldoc [-f]. And there are stories and tutorials

Re: [O] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-11-01 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.11.01 13:42 -0500 ) Perrin Harkins: It's not that map is so evil, but rather that I have often seen people overuse it (especially after a first-reading of Effective Perl), and write confusing code with it by jamming too much into the map { some stuff } @list form. As a former map

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.10.30 03:22 -0500 ) Perrin Harkins: They didn't make their decision on performance though. They seem to have been most influenced by the idea that perl allows too much flexibility in coding style, although I can't see how PHP is going to help with that. Wow, I'd like what *they*

Re: Hiding perl code

2002-07-22 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.07.22 10:15 -0400 ) Jon: At my former employer's, we built an Enterprise Management System out of mod_perl. He wants to distribute it to clients w/o risking theft of his code. Well, I'll save the intellectual property rant, but it's going to be very difficult to do. Perl is set up

apache 1.3.24 mod_perl 1.27 perl 5.6.1 segv

2002-06-21 Thread John Saylor
Hi Try as I might, I cannot get apache to run. It just keeps segv-ing. When I run it with -X I can see the failure [with gdb's help] #0 0x401aac25 in __libc_free (mem=0x4039c778) at malloc.c:3155 #1 0x403472c4 in Perl_sv_clear () from /opt/webtree/ww/modules/libperl.so #2 0x403474d5 in

Re: the cookbook review on perl.com

2002-04-26 Thread John Saylor
Hi -Original Message- From: Jon Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:14 AM Somebody get this reviewer a grammer checker! ( 02.04.26 09:22 -0400 ) Wiswell, Virginia: this is a joke, right? No, gramper wants to keep tabs on her. -- \js incentivize

Re: [OT] Encrypting Embedded URLs

2002-04-18 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.04.18 17:32 -0500 ) Nigel Hamilton: I'm looking for a two-way cipher to obfuscate URL parameters safely and succinctly (not too many extra characters). If you just want to obfuscate, you can do a rot13, with special substitutions for non alpha charachters. Or any other 'roll

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The New mod_perl logo - results now in...

2002-03-15 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.03.15 10:03 - ) Jonathan M. Hollin: However, I request your comments on this idea: should we have just one button (helping to develop a distinct identity for mod_perl) or should we have several (for choice)? It's up to you... TMTOWTDI, of course- multiple buttons! -- \js

Re: File upload example

2002-03-13 Thread John Saylor
Hi On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Saylor wrote: I have found that some browsers put the file in the value matching the parameter name instead of putting a file upload object there. ( 02.03.12 18:36 -0500 ) Rich Bowen: That's not really necessary, as Apache::Request does that for you. Maybe I

Re: File upload example

2002-03-12 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.03.12 06:57 -0500 ) Rich Bowen: Comments welcome, YMMV, Caveat Emptor, and all that. I have found that some browsers put the file in the value matching the parameter name instead of putting a file upload object there. So your code should check the value to see if it is a path AND a one

Re: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.03.06 10:28 -0800 ) Eric Hammond: I'm part of a small group which recently did something like this, replacing a major NT/IIS/ASP web site with Linux/Apache/mod_perl/Mason in 3 months. Dude- write this up! Submit it to Stas, or the perl.org web site. This is good stuff that we *all*

Re: MS+HTML - Unix

2002-01-23 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.01.23 18:23 + ) Philip M. Gollucci: Is there anyway I can on the fly take the messed up HTML file I get and covert it to what they meant to give me. Probably not. You *could* strip out all HTML [and other formatting cruft] and display as text, but I'd guess your 'constituents'

Re: [modperl site design challenge] please vote

2001-12-04 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.12.04 16:39 +0800 ) Stas Bekman: Thomas Klausner, Allan Juul and Carlos Ramirez have answered the challenge and submitted their modperl site designs. Thank you folks! I'd like to echo that thanks since all 3 designs are thoughtful and well executed. While a poll is cleaner in a way,

Re: [modperl-site design challenge] Thomas Klausner (domm)

2001-11-26 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.11.25 22:37 +0100 ) Thomas Klausner: You can look at my idea of the the new modperl-site design here: http://domm.zsi.at/modperl-site-domm/ I like it. The main part of it is now just an elaboration of the contents, I imagine this will be a changing teaser of some sort. * While the

uploads with Apache::Request failing

2001-09-11 Thread John Saylor
Hi I'm trying to use Apache::Request to upload a file, but it's not working. Here's how I initalize the object: $s = shift; $apr = Apache::Request-new ( $s, DISABLE_UPLOADS = 0 ); And here's the upload code: # using $rv for something beside a return

handler for error log

2001-06-12 Thread John Saylor
Hi Is it possible to put a handler on the error log so that certain elements could be filtered? Ideally, I'd like to keep track of how many times a certain error appears and with a handler that would be a cake walk. So the handler would 'live' between the main httpd process and the file, doing

Re: avoiding authentication w/ mod_perl

2001-05-10 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.05.10 13:07 -0600 ) Mark Holt: For my paid users, I would like to offer the option of using .htaccess files for password protection, but I can't afford to check these files on every hit, only hits to paid sites. I can determine if the user is paid with a couple of lines of perl, but

authorization and mod_perl

2001-05-09 Thread John Saylor
Hi Perhaps this is obvious, or said somewhere that I haven't looked; but I'm having trouble figuring it out. What I want is for a certain directory tree to be behind an authorization handler; however, the content behind this directory tree consists of handlers and aliases. And the

Re: [OT] ApacheCon BOF

2001-03-20 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.03.20 10:36 -0500 ) Geoffrey Young: still need more suggestions for a theme that aren't tongue-in-cheek, though :) But those are the best ones! And puns and other word play are a part of perl culture! Also, just for my information, who decides on the theme and how do they do it? --

Re: [OT] ApacheCon BOF

2001-03-19 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.03.19 13:35 -0500 ) Geoffrey Young: In the spirit of things free and fun, I again have a sponsor for mod_perl T-Shirts for this year's ApacheCon BOF. Any thought of making a extra and selling them off the list for people who can't get to ApacheCon and yet want to proclaim their

Re: Looking for a new distro

2001-01-15 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.01.13 12:32 -0800 ) Jamie Krasnoo: Ok, I've had it with RH 7.0. Too many problems. What Linux distro are some of you using with Apache 1.3.14 and mod perl 1.24_01? Slackware 7.1 And, I'd also consider making the leap to [Free]BSD. -- \js Milkmen deliver twice a week!

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: "George Sanderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 22:47 Subject: RFC: Email (mod_perl) Apache module? The module would allow the users to read and send email. Now that would be advocacy;-) No, that would be spam. -- \js

persistent connections for handlers

2000-12-09 Thread John Saylor
Hi I am writing a mod_perl handler that takes a HTTP POST and sends mail. What I'd like to do is to open up a connection to the SMTP server [a Net::SMTP object] and a log file [filehandle] that exist outside of the handler. So that when the handler is run, it has access to these items, and can

Re: Very WIRED error msg

2000-10-23 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Argument "OK" isn't numeric. Argument "OK" isn't numeric. Argument "OK" isn't numeric. Argument "OK" isn't numeric. What that mean ??? Your code is expecting a numeric value [probably 1 or 0] and it's getting a string. Your code is

Re: Remembering Authentication

2000-10-17 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: "Ian Frawley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to authenticate a user without having to use the unfriendly login box provided by browsers, without using cookies? 2 words: digital certificates This probably means a lot of infrastructure [LDAP, CA, smart

Re: Remembering Authentication

2000-10-17 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: "Ian Frawley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it not just possible through a perl module as I am not very clued up on digital certificates. Well, you have to have some credentials- and if it's not a cookie [bad idea anyway], and if it's not a username/password-

Re: Zope functionality under mod_perl

2000-09-28 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 00.09.28 17:29 -0500 ) Philip Molter: Recently, one of my co-employees has been messing around with Zope (http://www.zope.org) and I was wondering if there's a package that provides similar functionality using mod_perl and Apache rather than its own web server. That would be mason